RealTek - Company Information:

Realtek Semiconductor Corp., a fabless IC design house situated in the Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu, Taiwan, was founded in October 1987. Realtek manufactures and sells a wide variety of products throughout the world, and its product lines can be broadly categorized into two subdivisions: Communications Network ICs, and Computer Peripheral and Multimedia ICs. Included among the communications network IC products manufactured and provided by Realtek are: network interface controllers (both the traditional 10/100M Ethernet controllers and the more advanced gigabit Ethernet controllers), physical layer controllers (PHYceivers), network switch controllers, gateway controllers, wireless LAN ICs, as well as ADSL router controllers. In particular, the RTL8139 series 10/100M Fast Ethernet controllers met their height during the late 90ís, and continued to take up a significant, and eventually predominant share in the worldwide market in the following years. Those devices categorized as Realtekís computer peripheral an